0 views collected around this technical thread.
This article recounts a two‑year journey of moving from Ansible‑based EC2 deployments to a Kubernetes‑centric platform, detailing motivations, migration strategies, operational challenges, tooling choices, cost considerations, and practical lessons for teams contemplating a similar cloud‑native transformation.
The article details how Zendesk modernized its monolithic Rails architecture by adopting Docker, microservices, and Kubernetes, building internal tools like ZDI and Samson, and achieving faster deployments, automated scaling, and improved resilience, with about 70% of its applications now running on Kubernetes.
This article details the background, goals, architectural analysis, migration scope, step‑by‑step containerization process, code‑level challenges, and post‑migration results of moving a large‑scale live‑classroom platform from virtual machines to a Kubernetes‑based container environment, highlighting performance, reliability, and operational improvements.